Conference on the Political Economy of International Finance (PEIF)

12 March 2004

Sponsored by the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC)

Background
Agenda with links to conference papers
Participant list

Background

The UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation hosted the fourth meeting of a research group on the Political Economy of International Finance (PEIF) at UC San Diego.

The meeting brought together current research on the political economy of international finance. The 2004 conference was devoted to scholarship on the economics and politics of international monetary and financial arrangements.

Papers presented at the conference included:

"Why Do Countries Peg the Way They Peg? The Determinants of Anchor Currency Choice"
Christopher M. Meissner, University of Cambridge Faculty of Economics
and Politics
Nienke Oomes, International Monetary Fund

"Conditional Lending Under Altruism"
Alex Mourmouras, Deputy Division Chief, IMF Institute
Peter Rangazas, Professor of Economics, Indiana University-Purdue University
in Indianapolis

"Voter Sophistication and Domestic Preferences Regarding Debt Default"
Michael Tomz, Stanford University

"Politically Induced Abnormal Returns: How and Why Politics Move Financial Markets"
William Bernhard, Political Science, University of Illinois, and David Leblang, Political Science, University of Colorado

Previous Meetings

PEIF 1. UC Berkeley, February 25, 2000
PEIF 2. Harvard University, October 27, 2000
PEIF 3. Georgetown University, October 24–25, 2002

Organizing Committee

J. Lawrence Broz (UC San Diego)
Barry Eichengreen (UC Berkeley)
Jeffry Frieden (Harvard University)
Carl Walsh (UC Santa Cruz)
Jeromin Zettelmeyer (IMF)

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